[Stepmania-devs] Lights

[Charles L. <web...@cn...>]

Devs, (Probably mostly Glenn)

	I am submitting my changes to the SM source that allow for control of the
lights.  It allows for multiple game types and I believe I did it 'in the
spirit of stepmania'.   If not, please tell me how it is wrong.  I would
like to at some point be helpful to the StepMania community.  Correcting me
will help me learn about how to work in this as well as other open source
projects.  Thanks.

Here's the basic idea:

Under normal circumstances, where

Lightsdriver = Parallel

is all that's in stepmania.ini, there is no change in functionality.  The
steps are still taken from the cabinet-lights gametype.

I have added
LightsOrOutput=(0)
LightsStepsType=(lights-cabinet)
LightsStepsDifficulty=(standard)

Where the values in parenthesis contain the default choices.

You can redefine them to act similar to an arcade (DDR EX). by saying:

LightsOrOutput=1
LightsStepsType=dance-single
LightsStepsDifficulty=standard

NOTE: The Steps Difficulty is only a preferred difficulty.  If the
difficulty does not exist, then it will revert to the original code where it
just takes the first steps (if any exist).

This seems like a much better solution than before which would limit
per-game... And it seems a lot better than telling everyone who wants arcade
lights to write their own to every song.


Glenn, if you feel my code confuses you, or you do not like it... Don't feel
bad about just expunging it from the CVS.  I would just ask that you tell me
what I did wrong so I do not make the same err in the future.


Thanks,
Charles.